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I heard Coquelin played well, he was the only player to turn up against Utd, Ox is a real talent.

You wait till the spuds turn us over in a few weeks time, Arsenal will be just full of piss and winge for a good few months..

I don't join in on all that but i do get irate and have left one match early, most of the fans moan at the lack of commitment and acceptance of poor performances and i have to go with them, i was having a chat with our captain after our drubbing last night and he was going through the list of big name quality players that Fergie ousted from the Utd squad because of a bad performance on a big night, poor attitude or spoken out of line..

Berbie won the Golden boot but his performance against City in the Semis was enough for old blood nose to yentz the bug eyed bulgarian and make it clear he wants him out!

I love that. imagine being some 18 year old hopeful, training with a man with the talent of Berbatov and seeing him out of favour for one bad game.!! you would die for that shirt to keep you place. and look at Utds kids out there now.. training hard, working hard and never giving up..

The number of Arsenal players that gave up mid match is shocking, and it wont change until a man takes over the coaching and gets the drilled in the basics and fit, really fit..

You look at Ronaldo, he is like a Thai boxer on steroids with the legs of a race horse. look at him when he started at Utd. he made Damo look manly..
then take Theo Walcott.. he still looks like a 15 year old, i have seen more muscle in a Lyme Regis Rock pool.. why hasn't he manned up? got fitter, stronger etc etc. aimed for the peak at his sport??

I don't buy this. Rooney monkeyed United around last year, and didn't suffer for it - because he's too good. Also I think the comparison between Theo & Ronaldo is a little fatuous. Are you saying that after spending several millions on London Colney, they're too tight to have got in some top sports scientists to figure out what each player needs? Not buying that, it's a bit like the canard that our back-room is doing something wrong because our players get 'injured all the time', whereas other clubs don't - complete rubbish, other clubs get the same number of injuries, but Chelsea & the Mans have bigger squads, so the injuries aren't so important.

Chamakh was getting untold stick from some fans around me, because they thought that he should scored a hat-trick and wasn't putting in a shift, yet he ran & ran all game, and laid up the ball countless times for his team-mates, had 2 or 3 on-target efforts that on another night would have gone in.

That goes for other players that get loads of stick - ok, Fabianski was pretty hopeless - but he stayed on the pitch and made some decent interventions - but there was a load of kids, and 3 brand new players out there last night, and the fans were booing them at 0-1. How does that help anyone? Why boo your own team? Laughing at someone else's ineptness I can understand, but booing your own team?

I just don't understand what the point of going to an Arsenal game is, clearly. There was me thinking it was so that you could support 'your' team and enjoy some great football, which, for the most part, we got last night. Ok, it was 'only' Shrewsbury, but still.